18th Century Bow Porcelain

been enamelled using the colours typical of Bow porcelain of the period, including the very attractive

Poole, Julia, and Fitzwilliam Museum, 1986, Plagiarism personified?: European pottery and porcelain

An attractive pair of lions, in the white; possibly based on a Chinese original.

Chinese porcelain decoration that was first developed in the 18th century during the Qianlong period (1735

. This example illustrated Ainslie, J., ‘Underglaze-blue Printing on Bow Porcelain’, The Antique

Modelled after a small Chinese blanc-de-Chine wine cup of Dehua, Fujian Province; the bowl with three single prunus sprigs. Thick glaze with some crazing around base. Green transluce...

In the early ‘mushroom grey’ body, probably made by hand; decorated with some very good flower painting. Provenance: Taylor Collection; Simon Spero 2007.  

a cage. The Bow Porcelain factory was the first English porcelain producer; these early works are

A fine octagonal plate painted in the botanical style; possibly the yellow gloriosa climbing lily. Provenance: Taylor Collection; Robyn Robb 2003. Filled edge chips.  

Circular plate, the well outlined and transfer printed in black/brown outline and filled-in with 'wet' enamels all with Chinese figures in a garden and a child playing with an excite...

Coffee pot, circa 1765-69: Coffee pot and cover of silver form with domed cover; the body of the pot and dome of the cover pineapple moulded between rims painted in blue with cell an...

Plate, circa 1755-1760: Octagonal plate, the decoration after an oriental original (possibly from the region now modern Bhutan), with four robed ladies walking through a stylized lan...

Of Chinese export form with loop handle; the body imaginatively painted in a bright ‘early blue’ underglaze with pine, rock and bamboo after the Chinese. Yellow tinged body; clear gl...

hand, pale pink jacket with typical Bow opaque blue collar and cuffs. We've called her 'Running Girl

An early coffee can from the bow porcelain factory, naively painted with the ‘Strutting Bird

painted in a soft mix of the usual famille rose palette of the Bow transfers in puce-pinks, yellow, plum

An early example of Bow porcelain, decorated in ‘wet’ famille rose colours; featuring a peony, a

. Transfer printing on bow porcelain is very rare. Prov: Taylor Coll; Winifred Williams, UK, 1967; the

Of silver shape with lobed and gilt dentil edge; the well with a landscape of exotic birds enameled in a brilliant palette all on a festoon of dense green-black foliage, the rim with...

thin, even glaze. A superb example from the dawn of English porcelain manufacture.

. Bow was the first of the English porcelain manufacturers, and produced some excellent wares. Much of

An engaging cat, holding a mouse in its paw, while a second mouse escapes into a cheese. These small 'toys' are scarce, being easily lost. They were largely hand made, and so were n...

Of full-bellied pear-shape with large sparrow-beak lip set slightly below the top rim of the body in front of a triangle of circular pouring holes and at the right angle to the strap...

Oval tureen and cover, decorated after the Kakiemon in the two quail pattern; the crabstock handles and masks are interesting features. The tureen has had a rather unhappy life, appa...

Pint mug of baluster form with flared base and grooved strap-handle with heart-shaped termination. The face of the mug painted after the Kakiemon with the two Quail pattern. The reve...

similarity of the modelling of the figure and the Bow Mongolian busts, and their similarities of paste and

A direct copy of a Chinese shape, decorated with chinoiserie painting of typical motifs in the famille rose palette.

An early coffee can, painted in under-glaze blue with a large residence in a Chinese landscape. Prov: Taylor Collection; Watney Collection.  

pagoda, admiring swans on the lake. Bow didn't produce very much in the way of transfer-printed

of painting, known as 'wet enamelling', is very attractive but quite scarce in Bow.

A personification of Winter, from The Four Seasons. Unusually fine condition for a figure of this period.

Of silver form; oval, double lipped, and with scroll handle with stylized mask to each side. The interior painted in blue underglaze with a songbird on a branch, a peony and an inner...

Low tea cup with clip handle with matching saucer, decorated after the Kakiemon with the two quail pattern. An unusual form with scarce decoration. Provenance: Windsor Antiques;...

A classic example of early bow porcelain. The figure is of a Dominican Nun, and is based on a

An unsually early set of handles with original steel tines and blade. Pistol grip form moulded with acanthus scrolls, leaves and swags and painted with indianische Blumen in a Kakiem...

porcelain decoration. Peonies, also known as the "king of flowers," are often depicted in Chinese art as a

porcelain. Provenance: Taylor collection.

An early coffee can, painted in under-glaze blue with a Chinese landscape. Prov: Taylor Collection; Roderick Jellicoe.  

An early coffee can, painted in under-glaze blue with banana trees in a landscape. Prov: Taylor Collection; Parkside Antiques.     

Painted in under-glaze blue with the Desirable Residence pattern, featuring telegraph poles, and unusual feature for this period. Prov: Taylor Collection; Mercury Antiques Melbour...

Small pot with loop handle, curved spout and domed cover with ball finial, the body painted after the Famille rose with chrysanthemum, flowers and leaves, all from mauve rocks on gre...

An early coffee can, painted under the glaze with a Scholar’s Rock and associated items. Prov. Taylor Collection; Stockspring Antiques.

An early coffee can, painted under the glaze with the Stork & Banana Tree pattern. Provenance Taylor Collection; Sutherland Collection.  

A fine pair of plates with raised decoration of prunus, and painted with a famille rose pattern.

From the Commedia dell’arte, shown seated on a tree stump and playing her favourite instrument. Probably after Kandler, who described the model as a Tyrolean maiden playing a lyre. ...

An early coffee can, painted under the glaze with the cross-legged man pattern. An early and unusual shape for this scarce pattern. Provenance: Taylor Collection; Robyn Robb.         

A large tea-pot, or perhaps a punch pot, of globular form with loop handle. Painted in a vibrant wet palette after the Chinese. A most attractive example, of unusual size. The pot ha...

An early coffee can, painted under the glaze with Bamboo and a pagoda. Underglaze B mark. Provenance: Taylor Collection; Sutherland; Aubrey Toppin; Charles Dyson.      

An early coffee can, painted in under-glaze blue with flowers and insects. Painter’s mark 16 and a distinctive way of painting insects. Prov: Taylor Collection; Christie’s.     

Painted in under-glaze blue with a pattern possibly depicting a reluctant bride. Provenance Taylor Collection; Mercury Antiques.

is decorated in the same pattern and by the same hand as the Bow bowl in the Rissik Marshall

lavishly applied prunus decoration. Ceramics bills from the Porcelain Company, [Bow] November 1749

full bocage. This would have been made by a jeweller, working with metal and porcelain flowers from

From a Bow service with decoration attributed to the painter Jeffryes Hammett O'Neale, probably in

One of Bow's theatrical figures. The actress Mrs Catherine (Kitty) Clive, 1711-1785, as Mrs Riot

A small, early boat of rare oval form, the more usual being the hexagonal. Appealingly naïve polychrome decoration of the period, possibly done outside the factory at one of the e...

Bow porcelain blue and white sweetmeat dish with three shell sections and modeled dolphin center

This is a fabulous pair of figures of Liberty and Matrimony made by the Bow Porcelain factory between 1760 and 1764. These figures were a popular pair portraying marriage. The bow p...

This is a charming Derby figure of a shepherdess with a garlanded lamb, made in or shortly after 1760. The figure is one half of a set called the "Garland Shepherds"; originally she ...

A stunning, petite French slant-top desk or "bureau de pente" in the Louis XV style, turquoise and gold polychromed with Chinoiserie detailing, and red under-body. Desk opens to rev...

Antique 19th century hand painted Chinese fan with mother of pearl faces, Qing dynasty, the fan features black and gold lacquered handled a colorful screen with a figural, hand paint...

DESCRIPTION: Perhaps the best Romney in private hands. If Vogue Magazine existed in the late 18th century, this image of Lady Caroline Price would be on one of its covers. The e...

Painter: Vincent Taillandier (1753-90). Gilder; Boileau Le Jeune (1783-89).

An early Meissen porcelain teapot made circa 1715, decorated by a Dutch hausmaler circa 1730-1740. The teapot is decorated in a Kakiemon palette of turquoise, red, blue and yellow...

A good 18th Century Meissen Figurine of a Lady, circa 1740, modelled by Peter Reinecke wearing a hat with a ribbon, floral dress and holding a bouquet of flowers and standing on a fl...

Antique 19th century hand painted Chinese fan with mother of pearl faces, Qing dynasty, the fan features black and gold lacquered handled a colorful screen with a figural, hand paint...

This exceptional and rare Wedgwood tri-colored jasper vase exemplifies that renowned firm’s classical artistry. Crafted of jasper, perhaps the greatest of Josiah Wedgwood’s porcelain...

Qing dynasty Kang XI blue and white Chinese porcelain censer with a design of "Antiques" and auspicious objects, the base in clear glaze and the mouth unglazed, age related wear, sho...

Chinese Export Famille Rose 'Precious Objects' Porcelain Dish, Qianlong Period, Circa 1765-1775 This superb oval dish is a quintessential example of Chinese Export porcelain create...

Chinese Export Famille Rose porcelain bowl with Chinese "Antiques" & Scholar's items on Furniture, Qianlong Period, circa 1735-1740. The Chinese Export porcelain bowl is finely ...

Beautiful big bucket vase with two steel handles, Famille verte. Excellent decorated with women and young boys in a walled garden and princess on horseback. Elegant precious Chinese...

Chinese Export pseudo-tobacco-leaf pattern platter, circa 1770.

An exquisite and quite rare pair of 19th century English, Staffordshire, Jasperware blue ground Wedgwood vases with neoclassical subjects on rounded plinths, stylistically attributed...